A L L T H E S U P P O RT YO U N E E D, A L L AT T H E R I G HT T I M E Invention disclosure The academics at UCL and our associated institutions create many commercially promising ideas. Our role is to carefully select those with the best chance of commercial success and help develop and launch them. Proof of concept Transforming an idea into a proven innovation, so that its performance and commercialisation potential can be realised, takes experience, expertise and funding. We can provide you with all three and more. Patenting Any IP you create along with your technology is a valuable asset. So our patent team will identify the strategy that offers the best protection for it while managing the essential legal formalities. Project management Expert project management enables you to concentrate on research and development while we take care of the business, ensuring commercial strategy can be incorporated from the start. We will take your project through the regulatory process, providing expertise and support.
Social enterprise If you want to start a social enterprise arising from your research - to address social or environmental needs, reinvest profits into the community or back into the business - start with us. We were the first technology transfer organisation to appoint business managers for social enterprise. Our pioneering spirit in this field continues. A D D I N G T H E VA LU E T H AT A D D S U P TO SUCCESS We believe it’s not enough to simply deliver a technology transfer solution - it’s the value we add at every stage that delivers the difference. This level and quality of support ensures more of UCL’s novel ideas, innovations and technologies make the transition into marketable products and services for societal benefit and impact.
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Building an exciting future on the firm foundations of our past – launched in 1826 as London University
Internal and external funding We can find the funding that’s the best fit for your project. We can access significant sources from within UCL, the UCL Technology Fund, our own organisation and beyond - such as research councils and venture capitalists.
– the first university established in the capital, to be secular and admit women
Marketing and negotiations When there’s likely to be a choice of routes to market for your innovation, we’ve vast experience of identifying the best exit point for it, whether that be licensing, joint venture or the creation of a new, spinout enterprise.
– deep roots in medicine, healthcare and medical technology - played key roles in many important breakthroughs, from the discovery of the structure of DNA to the discovery of hormones
Licensing If licensing your technology is deemed the best route to market, our business managers will find industry partners that could benefit from it, negotiate agreements and provide you with comprehensive advice and support facilities. Spinouts We’ve a successful track record for creating successful spinout businesses in key new industries. So if your technology could be better served by forming a new company, we’ll establish, brand, fund, manage, promote and incubate it. And we’re there for the long term, usually retaining a stake in the new enterprise.
– 29 Nobel Prize winners and three Fields Medalists amongst our alumni and current and former staff
– part of UCL Partners, integral to the world’s largest academic health science centre – a world’s leading multidisciplinary research university, ranked highly in national and international league tables – first technology transfer company founded in 1993, became UCL Business PLC (UCLB) in 2006.
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